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February 22, 2012

Cape buffalo

Photographer: Brent Newhall/Flickr

Buffalo Kills Suspected Poacher in SA

A suspected poacher died on Tuesday in South Africa's Kruger National Park after being trampled by a Cape buffalo. Park spokesman William Mabasa said the man, along with his two companions who escaped and reported the incident, were suspected of poaching fish in the park. "What would you want in the park at night without coming through the gate?" he said. Poaching has become a major concern in the park, which was home to more than half of the 450 rhino poachings in South Africa last year. A poacher was also killed by a lion in the park in 2010.

Read more at The Vancouver Sun

Alberto Contador

Photographer: Petit Brun/Flickr

Euskaltel Looks Beyond Basque Riders

On Monday, cycling team Euskaltel-Euskadi admitted that it will likely have to break with tradition and sign non-Basque riders in a quest to remain in the ProTour. Team manager Miguel Madariaga said the UCI points system and reduced contributions from the Basque government necessitated strategic changes. “We might have to sign [non-Basque riders]. It seems like those outside like us more than those inside the Basque Country. We need to have at least 9 million euros if we hope to aspire to be a competitive team,” he said. The unofficial Basque national team has competed in eight Tours de France and won four stages, most recently in 2011.

Read more at VeloNews

Blue Sky Basin, Vail

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Bachelorette Star Rescues Skiers

Jesse Csincsak, winner of season 4 the the reality TV show The Bachelorette, rescued a pair of lost backcountry skiers on Friday near Vail, Colorado. Csincsak, a Colorado local and former snowboard instructor, was snowmobiling with friends when he came across Hilary Skye and her son Dylan Arnold near Blue Sky Basin. Skye and Arnold had skied out of bounds and were looking for a chairlift back to the main resort. "They just dropped into a zone they didn’t realize how dangerous it really was,” Csincsak said. Csincsak also rescued a lost snowboarder in the same area a year ago.

Read more at CBS Denver

The Upper Big Branch mine

Photographer: TV19 - DD Meighen/Flickr

Mine Manager Faces Fraud Charges

The U.S. attorney's office in Charleston, West Virginia has filed criminal charges against the superintendent of a West Virginia mine where an explosion killed 29 people in 2010. Gary May, 43, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government in the April 2010 blast at the Upper Big Branch Coal Mine. A government investigation into the accident found that the mine's operator, Massey Energy, allowed coal dust and methane to build up in the shafts, fueling the explosion. May, who is reportedly cooperating with the government's investigation, is the second Massey employee to face criminal charges in the accident. In October, a federal court convicted Hughie Elbert Stover, the mine's former security chief, of lying to investigators and destroying documents. Prosecutors have recommended a 25-year prison sentence.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal

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